Porch-shade



C. W. WARREN. PoRcH SHADE. -APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, |919.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

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PORCH SHADE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3, |919.

1,336,325. Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

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6 l INYENTOIZ Chce vv, warren CLYDE W. WARREN, OF SAK RLPDS, MINNESOTA.

FORCE-SHADE.

Speccation ofLetters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, i936.

Application led February 3, 1919. Serial Lto. 274,620.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l, CLYDE W. WARREN, citizen of the United States, residing at Sauk Rapids, in the county of Benton and State ot Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Porch Shades; and l do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, 'and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention relates to what is generally designated as porch shades, and has for its object to improve the same in the several particulars hereinafter noted.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view partly in vertical section I and partly in elevation illustrating my invention as applied to a shade and to support the shade in a position on a porch structure;

Fig. QA is an enlarged vertical section taken approximately on the line 2 2 of 4 Fig. 1

Figi 3 is a fragmentary enlarged section j on the line 3-3'of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a view corresponding to Fig 1, but illustrating a different adjustment/of the shade; and v Fig. 5 is a section taken approximately on the une 5 5 of Fig. 4.

As hitherto constructed, there The characters a, and c, indicate respectively the lloor columns and roof structure of a porch. i

rThis improved. shade is of that type wherein thin wooden slats are woven to gether or flexibly connected by cords in such manner that they vmay be readily rolled up. have been joints at the adjacent edges of the slats through which the light could pass horizontally and through which objects could be seen by a .person looking horizontally through such joints.

As an important feature of the present invention, the slats are beveled at the adjacent edges and overlapped in such manner that light can not pass horizontally through the joints and consequently a person can not see objects through the joints of the shade when looking in an. approximately horizontal direction. These beveled edges, moreover, form joints which give the desired ventilation, but which will much better shed water than will joints formed in the old way.

My invention also provides an improved means for hanging and adjusting the shade, as will appear in the description of the drawings.

` rFhe shade is made up of thin wooden slats 6 connected or woven together by cords 7, and the upper ends ot the said 'cords 7 are interlapped with and secured to a headstrip 8 made up of a multiplicity of rigidly connected slats. To the head-strip 8 near its ends, are attached hanger-brackets 9, the upper ends ot' which are in the forni ot hooks 10, the lower ends ot which are provided with eyes or guide-loops 11.

The hooks 10 are adapted to b-e hooked into screw-eyes 13 or like devices secured into or otherwise secured to the overhead beam of ythe roof structure o.

Adjusting cords 14 are attached to the brackets 9 below hooks 10 and above the head-strip 8. is shown, this connection is accomplished by passing said cords through holes in said brackets and by knots 14a in the ends of said cords. These cords are brought down under the lower portion of the shade, thence upward through the guide-loops 11 and the ends of said cords adapted to be adjustably anchored to anchoring brackets 15 and applied to one of the posts 5. By reference to Fig. 1, it will be noted that one ot the cords la is passed through the guide-loops 11 of both Vbrackets 9.

As is evident, the shade can be rolled up and its, lower portion vertically adjusted by pulling' on the two cords 14.

When the shade is supported by the hooks 10 from the eye-bolts 13, its upper portion will not bemounted for vertical adjustment.

When it is desired to mount the shade for vertical adjustments both at its lower and upper portions, the hooks 10 are attached to the ends of secondary adjusting cords 16, and the said cords 16 are passed through the eye-bolts 13 and adjustabl engaged to bracket 15 as shown in Fig. LLhy reference to which it will be noted that one of the cords 16 is passed through bothof the eye-bolts 13.

Obviously when the shade is supported as portion of the shade may be rolled up and vertically4v adjusted. Otherwise stated, the shade supported as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, is capable o'universal adjustments so .that the shade can be rolled up to any desired extent and adjusted bodily to any position. For example, the shade can be half rolled up and then let down against the lloor,leav ing alarge open space above the shade. Such an adjustment is often highly desirable when a porch is used Vas a sleeping-porch and where the shade yis used only to shield the sleepers from the view `of passers-by.

What I claim is:

1. A porch shade made up of slats and Icords flexibly connecting the' same, said slats having beveled upper and lower adjacent edges that overlap in a vertical direction and cut oil' the direct passage of light through the joints in a horizontal direction, the said cords being crossed in the joints between the beveled edges of the slats and spacing the said slats in the manner above stated and tending to hold said slats alined in the same plane.

2. The combination with porch shade made up of iiexibly connected'slats, hanger brackets secured to the upper slat of the shade, said brackets having hook-shaped upper ends and cord-guides on their lower portions, overhead shade supporting guides, primary shade adjusting cords attached to said brackets, extended under the shade and through the cord-guides of said hanger-brackets, for rolling up and unrolling the shade, and secondary cords passed through said over-head guides and attached to the hooked ends of said hanger-brackets, for bodily adjusting the shade.

3. The combination with porch shade made up of flexibly connected slats, hanger brackets secured to the upper slat of the shade, saidbrackets having hook-shaped upper ends and cord-guides on their lower portions, over-head shade supporting guides, primary shade adjusting cords attached to said brackets, lextended under the shade and through the cord-guides of said hanger-brackets, for rolling up and unrolling the shade, and secondary cords passed through said over-head guides and attached to the hooked ends of said hanger-brackets, for bodilyadjusting the shade, the hooked ends of said hangerbrackets being engageable at will with said over-head cord guides.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CLYDE W. WARREN.

Witnesses W. SCHAEFER, W. A.. BARON. 

